Pay No Heed in Ontario
Friends in Toronto, Windsor, Hamilton and Ottawa please note: I will be bringing the new book back on the road to you next week. Here is a list of my events. Come if you can. Pay No Heed to the Rockets...
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To love a person, a place, and a thing.o
I rarely get nostalgic about objects. I have very few “things” that are precious to me. There is, though, an old blue backpack. I bought my Serratus Andromeda from MEC in 1997 and spent a year heaving...
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Bringing *Pay No Heed* back to Palestine
This is very exciting. At the beginning of next month, I will participate in the Kalimat Palestine Writers’ Festival. I will be among 14 authors – 10 Palestinian, 4 “international” – who will be...
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US Cover
(Alas, I’ve neglected this blog for a while.) Here is the cover of the US edition of Pay No Heed to the Rockets. The folks at Counterpoint did a fantastic job with this cover. It is my favourite of...
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Looking For Home in the Palestinian Diaspora
In my original plan for Pay No Heed to the Rockets I was going to include a chapter about Palestinian authors in the diaspora. I decided, in the end, to focus on Palestinians still living in historical...
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Ofelia Rivas, the Tohono O’odham, and the Wall
Considering all that is going on on the United States these days, I figure now might be a good time to post something from Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. I’ve chosen this section about where the...
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A Land Acknowledgment for Eurovision
Nearly every public event in Canada is preceded by a “land acknowledgment.” A host or organizer will publicly and verbally recognize the specific Indigenous people on whose traditional territory the...
View ArticleWorkshops for the Bored and Isolated
Hey all. I am doing a couple of socially-distant micro-classes for the Alexandra Writers Centre: Getting to Know You: A Profile Writing Workshop MARCH 26, 2020 10AM-12PM MEMBER PRICE: $30 NON-MEMBER...
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Pandemic Sex Work
I’ve been wanting to write about sex work for a long time, and a chapter of my upcoming book about taxi drivers will focus on the cabbie/sex worker relationship. In the meantime, though, here is a...
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Launching Driven
I haven’t been here in a while, but I thought I’d better drop in and announce my new book Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers is now available everywhere you find books. Even more exciting: I...
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